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OK, so, picture searches and WEIRD results...
Posted by Anok • 5/17/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
I was looking around for pictures of kids, having to do with child safety and some of the results that popped up were, erm...decidedly NOT kid friendly o_0
I mean, how does "child proofing" or "child safety" or even "kids do dangerous things" come back as porn sites? I kid you not!
One site was actually called named after the search terms...but it was, erm, very much about adults doing.....adult things....explicit adult things....
How underhanded is that?
Creeped me right out
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Seems like "those guys" just have this system down to a science (pardon the pun) are are always ahead of the SEO etc curve. I just don't get it!
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I wonder if there is a way to report that stuff to Google? Maybe you want to try using images.google.com/imagelabeler/ ? I've never done it, but it sounds like it could be used against stuff like this, though maybe I'm kidding myself.
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their image search capability has been getting worse over the last year or so. i've noticed i get relevant images for perhaps a page or two ... and then BIZARRE stuff starts popping up. i can't quite tell if it's gotten WORSE since image labeler was instituted or if it's just that far behind.
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I should probably also take the opportunity (hehehe) to pimp out the post I was looking for the images for.
You'll see the images I found, which were located not too far from the porn ones and you might say, "WTF?"
identitycheck-anok.blogspot.com/2008/05/anarchist-parenting-why-discipline-... -
Don't google Margot Fonteyn. you might accidentally fall upon some, erm, revealing pictures of Rudolf Nureyev. Not cool.
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Sad... seems like an uphill
fight to keep the sleaze out
these days. I'm no prude, but
I don't think that stuff should
be shoved in the faces of those
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I do think that anything with adult content in it shouldn't be using keywords that children would use - or having anything to do with children. I remember there was a porn site that was using Disney world or something like that as it's domain name or whatever - so kids searching for Walt Disney stuff would wind up on a hard core porn site.
Personally I don't understand it...the need to lure kids or unsuspecting adults. If people want porn, they'll look up porn. They aren't going to be surfing the web for Tigger toys and think "Oh, Hey! Let's stop over and play on this porn site for a while! (And pay for it, too)"
I mean, honestly!
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breaks my heart to see where the internet is going...TV too. I was flipping channels last night and had a big close-up of a 'ol nasty naked butt in my face on the fox channel. Wish we could select and pay for the channels we actually want to watch. Hoping that time will come soon!
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They show nekked butts on Fox? Heh.
I get ultra basic TV - seriously channels 2-18. I get PBS, Cspan, and TBS. Thats really it (OK, I do get Fox but I don't watch it
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Oh well, I do have filters on my searches, I was just shocked to see that these sites would use this kind of language. I don't know why I am shocked, but I am.
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Yeah, but it's a naked butt shot of Dennis Franz.
Don't get too excited anok.
www.imdb.com/name/nm0001240/
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It's the same for me every time I Google bare arsed boxing or naked gymnastics all I get is porn, something has to be done.
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I would like to point out at this juncture that the porn star who shares my name, is in fact NOT me, and no, I don't like it that way (not all the time anyway). It's a real pain in the arse (a-hem) when business contacts Google me.
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You really can't get rid of the porn completely, IBM's Webfountain, a very powerful web analysis tool has found approximately 30% of the web is porn.
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I don't want to get rid of pron...rather I was just wishing, and disturbed by the search terms or key words they use to surprise unsuspecting web surfers.
Googling "Child safety" should not bring up an explicit pornographic image - on the first page no less!
But if I wanted porn, I'd google the appropriate terms for what I wanted
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I agree Anok, I was seriously not impressed when my son googled first his name and then my name for a laugh and came up with something rather nasty. I would understand if I was called "Caroline Shagfrombehind", but I am not. It seems even innocent searches bring up porn sites. We could do with a clear out.....before it takes over.
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I thought that there had actually been a law passed stating that pornography sites couldn't use certain key words or mimicked words that would lure children in, like "Walt Disney" or some very similar variation of Walt Disney....because when they do, even parental controls on the computer won't recognize the site as pornographic...and may not filter it out....
it probably is on the books, just not being enforced.
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